Thursday, December 24, 2009

Holiday Greetings from NASA

Six moons are shown in this video but Saturn has many more moons (61 confirmed). One of latest discovered, Aegaeon was announced just this past year (2009).

When I reminisce about Christmas, one complaint is the over commercialization of Christmas. But do you recall the most famous reindeer of all?

Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer, was created in Chicago as a marketing promotion for Montgomery Ward. That was 1939, so the marketing of Christmas goes back more years than I've been waiting to hear reindeer hooves on the roof. I believe the image of the modern Santa is credited to the Coca-Cola company. That jolly old elf had his debut in 1931.

Oh lisleman, the moon dance was really cute and amazing at the same time. And the planet has 61 moons! The light show was on a moon that did not look so round. Was that a moon?

And the info about Christmas is really, really interesting too.

Yes Eid is what we celebrate.

I take this opportunity to thank you for making the blogosphere a nice and interesting place. People say that it is harder to make friends when you are older but I feel that I have made some friends here and you are one of them.

Everyone complains about the over commercialization, as if we had no choice in how much we participate in it. But some of it I like and some of it I avoid. It's still my favorite holiday. A happy Christmas to you.

There is a line in Miracle on 34th Street where the commercialization of Christmas is discussed. So it does go way back. I didn't know about the Coca Cola Santa though. The things you learn reading blogs!

Thanks everyone!! Believe me, your comments today were one of the better things happening this strange Christmas day in our house. I'll be posting about this memorable Christmas but right now my back hurts and I'm very tired. Please check back for the story.

I taught a class about political cartoons years ago, and understood that the modern image of Santa was the brainchild of cartoonist Thomas Nast. He is also credited with Uncle Sam and the donkey for Dems and elephant for R's.

I do love commercial illustrations. When we visited Guinness in Dublin, there was a huge exhibit of the wonderful art of John Gilroy. So fanciful and fun! http://www.timeout.com/london/museums-attractions/event/154812/the-art-of-guinness

about lisleman

I was not born lisleman. I moved there. I was born a baby. I started breathing air more than sixty years ago. Oh if you happen to read a news report about
"Lisle man" please notice my moniker is one word. I'm not responsible
for my crazy neighbors.

Sha la la lala live for today.

One of the best things of my life
(everyone's I think) is learning. I like science especially physics.
Don't ever stop asking why because there is an endless amount to
learn. Two of our daughters became teachers. This and our grandkids keeps the learning idea alive for me.

I've accepted that we all have different talents. Most of time this works well for everyone unless your talent is illegal.

Blog on and don't lose that linky feeling.

Does anyone read this far down on these things? I should hide a secret password to a bank account with some money in it. Anyone have a spare bank account with a little cash?